Landscape is a fantastic genre of photography that really allows you to take your time, grow your craft, experiment with camera settings, and get out into great outdoors. It can be difficult to find ...
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Why are windmills everywhere here?

These windmills stand across green fields and canals. This landscape is located in the countryside of The Netherlands.
Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called “green-energy” industry, almost 15,000 windmills — maybe more — have been left to rot across America. And while the turbines have been ...
Problems involving floods, lack of power and failing levees are not new. Holland has faced all of them for centuries. Originally, the land that's Holland today was a marsh, but through the years ...
The windmill, with its paddle-shaped blades turning in the breeze high atop a tower, is an iconic image of the Old West, Texas cattle ranches and Midwest homesteads, and it’s a sign of civilization.
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Ancient windmills of Nashtifan

A true story about thousand year old windmills in Iran that still harness powerful desert winds using ancient sustainable engineering.
This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. We set out from Marfa one recent Tuesday at a predawn hour so ...